Chapter 45 (Part A) – JiaoLong Dragon

ps: A JiaoLong dragon is an aquatic dragon. )

Bi Fan continued to walk around the forest, very cautiously so.

Two successive encounters with beasts, that weren’t exactly weak, meant that he might no longer be in the first layer of the devil’s territory.

The chances of him being inside the second layer of the devil’s territory were relatively large, as it is said that the majority of the demons inside the second layer were around the ‘brave’ layer and demons as high as the ‘emerging from the womb’ could be encountered with here, on occasions.

Of course, the demons as strong as the ‘emerging from the womb’ layer were lesser in number.

If Bi Fan fatefully bumped into one of them, he would surely try to escape. But escaping from a beast as strong as ‘emerging from the womb’ layer wasn’t that easy either.

Bi Fan was more careful than ever before, as he no longer had the Marten to warn him, or the Chimera to protect him, so now, he needed to be a thousand times more careful.

He hadn’t gone too far, when he felt the ground shake, which was followed by a massive sound, as if there was a whole flock of demons nearby.

“A group of beasts!” Bi Fan didn’t seem scared; on the contrary, he seemed rather excited.

He immediately rushed in the direction of the sound, even if it meant that he was going towards a whole group of beasts.

Bi Fan had made his own calculation, but even then, it was very courageous of him.

As he moved nearer to the sound, he could feel the ground shake with even greater intensity.

Soon, Bi Fan spotted a herd of wild Oxen. It wasn’t a very big herd, and there were only eighteen Oxen in the herd.

Their heads were almost as large as the Chimera’s. Their heads were adorned with horns, which were almost one meter in length. While some of the Oxen had one horn, the others had two.

“Wild Oxen!” Bi Fan was slightly surprised.

One of the books he had read in the past had described an Ox as a very mighty and fierce beast.

However, an Ox didn’t have the ability to evolve, which meant that even the most powerful of Oxen could only become as strong as a goblin, at best. Comparatively, a Chimera was much better, for a Chimera could potentially evolve in time and become far stronger.

An Ox was considered a very fierce fighter and a whole herd of them could potentially be very dangerous for a single human.

“Boom!” A loud noise echoed as one Ox knocked down a tree, severing it.

Bi Fan secretly smacked his lips; it was time to have some fun.

Bi Fan circled his way around to the back of the herd and then leaped up in the air and landed on top of the back of one of the Oxen, which was right at the back of the herd.

“Mooo!” The wild Ox realized that someone had landed on its back. The Ox started to complain and started shaking its body, in the hope of throwing Bi Fan off.

Bi Fan’s hands had already got a firm grasp of the Ox’s horns, while his legs were wrapped around its belly, as the Ox continued to sway.

Even then, the momentum of the Ox was so great that Bi Fan had almost lost his balance a few times.

The Ox was quite powerful, and all Bi Fan could do was hold on tightly, he couldn’t get off, or even attack the Ox.

“Woah! Cool it.” Bi Fan decided that he needed to subdue the Ox, so he started to put pressure on the Ox, hoping to force it to the ground.

The Ox felt this sudden pressure from Bi Fan, but didn’t lower to ground; however, it did slow down a bit.

The remaining seventeen Oxen had noticed the sudden movement at the back of the herd and had already stopped. They had turned around and had come closer to inspect the situation, only to find Bi Fan having emerged out of nowhere, and mounted firmly on top of their companion.

They could not only look on in despair, unable to help their comrade out.

Bi Fan was busy riding the Ox’s back, which was tossing from side to side, showing no disdain for the rest of the world.

“Big guy ah? Come on… come on…”

This blatant provocation was all that was need to anger the Oxen in the herd and their eyes turned red, while their breathing took a coarse tune.

Wild Oxen were considered extremely strong, in fact, it was extremely difficult to withstand the force of these beasts if they collided into anyone headfirst.

Unfortunately for them, Bi Fan had come out of nowhere and was now sitting on the back of an Ox, which meant that none of them could do anything about it.

Bi Fan couldn’t possibly hope to match an Ox if it tried to collide with him, but at present, he was at a great advantage. He managed to put enough pressure on the Ox, so as to make it stand still on the ground.

Since he had already managed to subdue the Ox, he lost interest in it. He looked around and spotted an ‘enormous strength’ layer Ox, standing on the other end on the herd. He decided to have some more fun and he leapt off the back of the Ox he was on.

He used the backs of the Oxen, who were in the way, as stepping stones and tip toed his way to his new muse, bypassing the rest from above.

There was complete chaos in the herd, they all wanted to collide into him, and rip him into pieces, but since he didn’t land on the ground, their anger couldn’t be realized into action and they just stood there, helpless, furious.

In a handful of leaps, Bi Fan managed to reach the other end of the herd, having bypassed the Oxen in between, and landed firmly on the back of the ‘enormous strength’ layer Ox.

His legs were clamped around the Ox’s belly while his hands had a firm grasp of the Ox’s sharp horns.

“Moooo!” The Ox went man and wild with fury, and started colliding with everything in the vicinity, severing even the trees that stood nearby, hoping to throw Bi Fan off its back.

But Bi Fan had firmly established his position on top of its back, and was relishing driving the Ox mad.

Bi Fan was enjoying competing with this one; it was so much fun. He was beginning to really enjoy this contest of brute strength.

There he was, sitting in the middle of nowhere, at the top of an Ox, increasing the power with which he was trying to subdue the Ox.

Bi Fan kept increasing the pressure, hoping to suppress the beast, but the Ox was no less, in fact, was amazingly strong. So much so that, the Ox had barely slowed down, and that naughty little thing, continued to ram into obstacles.

“Dude, this must feel new to you, ah?” Bi Fan tried to agonize the Ox further.

But Bi Fan was beginning to realize just how crazy this Ox really was.